Re: Norton Ghost question

nospam.please_at_ualberta.ca
Date: 08/25/04 

Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 18:16:12 GMT

With the latest versions of Ghost, it doesn't necessarily need to be FAT.
Ghost can now read/write NTFS, some USB devices, CDRW, etc.
I have heard rumors that some versions of Ghost can even back up your system
drive without rebooting to DOS - I'm not sure if I believe this, but it may be
true.
Ghost can be put on a bootable CD as well as floppies, and some USB devices
like hard drives can be made bootable, and hold the Ghost program as well as
the images.

In article <001901c48aca$e95c3e60$a301280a@phx.gbl>, "KevinK"
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
 |The partition holding the backup must be FAT so you can
 |read it when restoring.
 |
 |Base partition can still be NTFS.
 |
 |I do exactly that, although I clone the backup to a
 |network drive. Has some issue's if I need to restore,
 |but it works.
 |
 |I'll agree with the second HD also, look for something
 |cheap. Probably 50 bucks will get you a reasonably sized
 |drive. and eliminates the issue if the primary crashes.
 |
 |
 |>-----Original Message-----
 |>As Harry said you can image your XP partition to another
 |partition but like
 |>you mentioned it's useless if the drive fails. I would
 |recommend a 2nd hard
 |>drive. Disks are really cheap, many under $.50 a gb on
 |sale, and then you
 |>could image all your partitions and be protected in case
 |of a disk failure.
 |>
 |>"Cooter" <cooter@msn.com> wrote in message
 |>news:z50Xc.1338$LH6.136950@twister.southeast.rr.com...
 |>I've almost finished installing XP on a new computer
 |with 4 logical drives.
 |>Can I create a Ghost image capable of restoring my
 |system on one of the
 |>logical drives (not the system drive)? I know this is
 |useless if the hard
 |>drive fails, but I'm thinking more about XP failures.
 |>
 |>
 |>
 |>.
 |>

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